Article for The Washington Post: Anger in Iraq’s southern provinces has been building for months, now it’s boiling over
Below is a link to my latest for Washington Post’s The Monkey Cage on protests in south Iraq. The article can be found here!
Translation: A dialogue with MP Shirouk al-Abayachi on the Civil Democratic Alliance (CDA) – Methaq al-Fayyadh (2014)
Below is another translation of an interview by Iraqi journalist Methaq al-Fayyadh, this time with female Iraqi MP Shirouk al-Abayachi. The interview deals with her role in the Civil Democratic Alliance (CDA), an attempt to bring civil trend actors together behind a unified political platform to contest parliamentary elections. A dialogue with MP Shirouk
Translation 1/3: Iraqi Communist Party History. “Part One: The Iraqi communists, their political alliances, and lessons learnt (1934-2014)” by Jassim al-Halwai
Below is the first instalment of a three-part translation of a series of articles written for the ICP by communist intellectual Jassim al-Halwai. The article begins with some preliminary clarifications and wider context setting before getting stuck into more granular historical analysis of the ICP’s relations with other Iraqi political factions throughout the organisation’s history.
Muqtada al-Sadr bayan 9th October 2016: suspending negotiations with INA, call for protests, and other details.
This is a quick translation of Muqtada al-Sadr’s 9th October bayan in which he responded to the decision by Iraq’s Federal Court to rule against the legality of al-Abadi’s attempt to remove the offices Iraq’s vice-presidencies. Al-Sadr also announced that he is postponing recently initiated negotiations with the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) because of the positions
Protected: Translation: Sadrists have dinner at Jassim al-Hilfi’s house. Inside story of the meetings which concluded the Sadrist-civil trend alliance.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Protected: Translation: ‘al-Asa’ib Enter the Game!’ A Sadrist account of the opening phase of the 2015 protests
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Translation: Jassim Al-Helfi, ‘The Social Movement in Iraq’
Translation starts here: Jassim Al-Helfi, ‘The Social Movement in Iraq: Diverse approaches towards a single goal’, al-thaqafa al-jadida, 380/2, 2016. Introduction The broad protests, which erupted on the 25th February 2011, have continued, via various ups and downs, until they took on the form of a wide popular momentum from the 31st July 2015. The
Article for 1001 Iraqi Thoughts on Montadhar Naser, Iraqi journalist acquitted of criminal defamation
1001 Iraqi Thoughts have picked up my article on Montadhar Naser, which can be read here.
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Translation, Part I: Faris Kamal Nadhmi, ‘The Civil Trend-Sadrist Convergence in the Arena of Protest: A psychological vision in the dynamics of the social left’
I recently posted a translation of an article by the independent Iraqi leftist intellectual and social psychologist Faris Kamal Nadhmi. Nadhmi wrote the article back in 2010 and it argued that the Iraqi leftist-civil trend and the Sadrist movement should come together to produce a ‘historical bloc’ in Gramscian terms. This post features my
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